2015: The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story by Martin Edwards (Winner) The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes by Zack Dundas A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup Unsolved Murders and Disappearances in Northeast Ohio by Jane Ann Turzillo The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook: Wickedly Good Meals and Desserts to Die For by Kate White, editor

2014: Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer’s Journey by Hank Phillippi Ryan, Editor (Winner) The Poisoner: The Life and Crimes of Victorian England’s Most Notorious Doctor by Stephen Bates Death Dealer: How Cops and Cadaver Dogs Brought a Killer to Justice by Kate Flora 400 Things Cops Know: Street Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman by Adam Plantinga The Art of the English Murder by Lucy Worsley

2012: Books to Die For: The World’s Greatest Mystery Writers on the World’s Greatest Mystery Novels by John Connolly/Declan Burke (Winner) Blood Relations: The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen, 1947-1950 by Joseph Goodrich, Editor More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered by D.P. Lyle Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie by Mathew Prichard, Editor

2010: Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: 50 Years of Mysteries in the Making by John Curran (Winner) The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum Sherlock Holmes for Dummies by Stephen Doyle & David A. Crowder Have Faith in Your Kitchen by Katherine Hall Page Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang

2005: Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak (Winner) Behind the Mystery-Top Mystery Writers by Stuart Kaminsky The Heirs of Anthony Boucher by Marvin Lachman The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Leslie S. Klinger

2004: Private Eye-Lashes: Radio’s Lady Detectives by Jack French (Winner) The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories, edited with notes by Leslie Klinger

2003: Amelia Peabody’s Egypt: A Compendium edited by Elizabeth Peters and Kristen Whitbread; designed by Dennis Forbes (Winner) Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction, vol. 3 (parts 1 & 2) by Colleen A. Barnett A Second Helping of Murder: More Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers edited by Jo Grossman and Robert Weibezahl Atomic Renaissance: Women Mystery Writers of the 1940s and 1950s by Jeffrey Marks Dick Francis Companion by Jean Swanson and Dean James

2002: They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated, and Forgotten Mystery Novels edited by Jim Huang (Winner) The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction edited by Mike Ashley Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction by Colleen Barnett Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir by Mary Higgins Clark Writing Mysteries: A Handbook by the Mystery Writers of America edited by Sue Grafton with Jan Burke and Barry Zeman

2001: Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir by Tony Hillerman (Winner) The History of the Mystery by Max Allan Collins Writing The Mystery: A Start-To-Finish Guide For Both Novice And Professional by G. Miki Hayden Who Was That Lady? by Jeffrey Marks Food, Drink, And The Female Sleuth by The Sisters Wells

1999: Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle by Daniel Stashower (Winner) The Deadly Directory by Kate Derie A Taste of Murder: Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers by Jo Grossman & Robert Weibezahl Detecting Women III by Willetta L. Heising The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing by Rosemary Herbert

1996: Detecting Women 2 by Willetta L. Heising (Winner) Amateur Detectives: A Writer’s Guide to How Private Citizens Solve Criminal Cases by Elaine Raco Chase and Anne Wingate Mystery: A Celebration by Ron Miller The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: The Making of a Detective Novelist edited by Barbara Reynolds By a Woman’s Hand, Second Edition by Jean Swanson & Dean James